Daily Inspiration Quote by Caprice Bourret

“Men tend to be selfish” lands less like a philosophical thesis than a compressed field report: a sentence built for the quick math of experience. Coming from Caprice Bourret, a model who came up in the 1990s tabloid ecosystem and later parlayed visibility into business, the line reads as both personal verdict and media-ready soundbite. It’s blunt enough to travel, vague enough to be indisputable, and that’s part of its power.

The intent isn’t to map male psychology; it’s to name a recurring pattern in heterosexual dating scripts where women are asked to accommodate, smooth over, and absorb. “Tend” does important legal work here. It signals an anecdotal generalization while insulating the speaker from the easy rebuttal (“not all men”). That hedge also suggests fatigue: she’s not prosecuting individual men, she’s pointing at a default setting.

The subtext is about asymmetry. “Selfish” can mean emotional stinginess, entitlement, or the quiet expectation that women will manage the relationship’s invisible labor. In celebrity culture, it can also mean something sharper: men benefiting from women’s youth, attention, and reputational risk while keeping their own options open. Bourret’s career adds a second layer, because modeling is an industry that commodifies female desirability while rewarding male gatekeepers and male consumers. When someone from that world says “selfish,” it carries the residue of being appraised, pursued, and discarded on a timetable that isn’t hers.

Culturally, the line works because it’s a tiny act of refusing politeness. It’s not nuance; it’s recognition.